Decide to go break in the new slicks since this is the closest track to me. A chance to open the carbs up all the way and take the ballast out. So I broke down and screwed the rims this time. Tack was not good on the 1st hit. spun 1.291/9.10 2nd hit worse 1.316/9.134. O take 5 clicks out of the front shocks. That's way better 1.268/9.069. run 4, spin again 1.288/9.074. Saturday morning race day weather predicts 9.07. The track feels stickier in the burnout than the starting line, the result 1.329/9.112. So now need to make a decision. I've never pulled timing to kill power in this car. Today is the day pull it back to 29 degrees. This works. It hooks and carries the front end, 1.273/9.107. Rd 1 weather predicts 9.12 with only one run of data for 29 degrees. I draw a new 1320 Challenger. .038/11.779 on a 11.78 I case him down .032/9.109 on the 9.12. Take a .015 stripe and lose, buy back opponent red lights and I coast to a 9.16. Run predicts 9.109. Rd 3 I draw a Dart .004/10.286 on a 10.24. I'm dead late .091/9.085 on a 9.10. This is my 3rd bad light in the last 3 outings. Wouldn't have mattered if I was .020 result would have been the same. But it has too change NOW. Learned something here as the car though a touch slower was good in very poor track conditions (complaints of 11 second cars spinning).1.273-1.287, not stellar but very good for what it was. Now the 9.085 at 29 degrees, wow picked it up at the back half went 1.281/[email protected]/[email protected] weather was the same all day 1.039-1.044 correction. Not sure why it picked up .016 from 660-1320? No wind all day. Going to Kentucky for the Mopar Southern Classic next week.
Doug
Doug
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